here's a great quote i ran across in a contentious message board: "the problem is, there are too many people who have to have concrete *proof* before they'll believe something." hmmm. see carl sagan's baloney detection kit first. then carefully decide where you place your faith.

my brother sent me a quote that our father dearly loved: "it doesn't matter who is wrong or right, but who is left." the verbal pun, that is.

you don't have to go far to purchase a military jet ... hours of fun! strafe your neighbors! we've been able to buy 'practice bombs' for years from war surplus dealers. big ones. who knows what you could stuff into one of those ... though they're generally used as ashtrays (you take a torch and cut off the nose, invert it, and weld). surplus drop tanks get transformed into motorized tri-cycles. surplus hand grenades get cored and turned into cigarette lighters. re-usable? hmmm.

they're coming to take me away, ha-ha! they're coming to take me away, ho-ho! there's no view like bellevue ...

reuters: pharmacists in new york are running out of cipro, an antibiotic with effects against anthrax. it won't cure, however. raises the spectre of further drug-resistant bugs, i would imagine, if the general populace start taking antibiotics as a daily tonic.